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"A comprehensive review found that the 50-year-old smelter has no prospect of becoming financially viable," the company said on Tuesday.
The situation is similar in Siberia's Norilsk region, where the world's biggest nickel smelter has killed all the trees within a 20-mile radius.
Mr. Gerard, a native of Canada who used to work in a nickel smelter, has little patience for people who accuse him of protectionism because of the many trade cases filed by his union.
BEIJING — Lead pollution from a newly opened and unlicensed manganese smelter has poisoned more than 1,300 children in southeastern China's Hunan Province, state-run media said on Thursday, the second case of mass lead poisoning in the past month.
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If the company is able to restructure its debt and avoid filing Chapter 11, state taxpayers will not have to pay cleanup costs in Herculaneum, a town of 2,800 about 30 miles south of St . Louiswhere Doe Run's smelter has caused contamination from lead, arsenic, cadmium and other toxic substances.
China's zinc exports soared to more than 500,000 tonnes in 1997, after a smelter had to boost production to cover short positions on the London Metal Exchange.
The three owners of HAW, an energy-hungry smelter, have decided to close it by the end of this year if it cannot get cheaper electricity.
The report of poisoning in Wugang followed a similar case in Shaanxi Province, in north-central China, where state news reports say 851 children living near the nation's fourth-largest smelter have tested positive for lead poisoning since early August.
Earlier studies of the birds near the smelter had shown that one species, the pied flycatcher, produced smaller clutches of eggs, and that both it and the other species, the great tit, produced fewer live fledglings.
In a statement issued on Tuesday, Alcoa said the 50-year-old smelter had "no prospect of becoming financially viable" and would close in August, affecting about 500 employees.
